Location of sculptures

According
to Moormann, “we have the hypothesis that the villa was out of use around AD
79, when the book scrolls, to mention one of the capital finds only, were
collected unsystematically on scaffoldings and in crates in a room not far from
the atrium and some of the garden statues were standing under the portico.
Apparently, there were reconstruction works going on, like we know from other
villas in the Vesuvius area, e.g. the Villa A, so-called of Poppaea at
Oplontis.”

Villa dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Dancing Faun
statuette. Found in 1754 on south side of entrance to peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5292.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Bearded Silenus statuette. Found in 1754 on south side
of entrance to peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5296.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Bust with a Chlamys. Found in 1754 on south side of
entrance to peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5588.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Bust possibly of Antiochus I Soter or Ptolemy
Alexander. Found in 1755 on south side of entrance to peristyle, middle of
right hand wall.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5596.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Bust of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Found in 1754 on
south side of entrance to peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5600.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Bust of Democrates. Found in 1754 on south side of
entrance to peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5602.

Found in the 2nd peristyle

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Herm of the Doryphoros. Found in 1753 in the angles of
the peristyle.

There
is a Greek inscription at the lower edge of the base ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΟΣΑΠΧΙΟΥΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΣΕΠΩΗΣΕwhich identifies Apollonius the Athenian, son of Archias, as
the maker of the work.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 4885.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Herm of an Amazon. Found in 1753 in the angles of the
peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 4889.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Bust of Ptolemy Apion. Found in 1759 on south side of
the peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5598.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Bust of Pythagoras previously identified as Archytas. Found
in 1753 in the angles of the peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5607.

Villa
dei Papiri, Herculaneum. Bust of Empedocles of Agrigento or Heraclitus. Found
in 1753 in the angles of the peristyle.

Now
in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 5623.

Concerning
this sculpture, the Naples Museum web site says: The identification of the character remains
problematic. In the past it was proposed to recognize in the piece as Eraclito,
but, in more recent times, the hypothesis has been put forward that it is
Empedocles of Agrigento (492-432 BC). This proposal finds comfort both in the
words of Diogene Laerzio about the thick hair of the character and in the
specific location of the bronze inside the villa where he made a counterpart
with the bronze depicting Pythagoras (inv. 5607), who was his teacher. In fact,
the two busts occupied two opposite corners of the square peristyle, an
environment, of a certain importance considering that it is in the centre of
the complex. This peristyle had a central basin and, at the corners, four
fountains with a circular basin, behind each of which a bronze bust stood on a
marble pillar; other sculptures adorned the southern portico and the
extremities of the basin, which presents a series of semicircular niches.